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NordAq permitting Shadura appraisal well
In addition to a production test the company plans to run on a previously drilled well, NordAq Energy Inc. is permitting a second well at its onshore Shadura prospect on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.
The Shadura appraisal well would be drilled from state land — lease ADL 391596 — into Cook Inlet Region Inc. subsurface leases in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The project would include an associated 1.2-mile gravel road to a 300-foot by 400-foot pad.
NordAq expects the construction to take place this winter and spring with the drilling lasting for 45 days this May and June and a production test following in early July.
Natural gas target The well would target natural gas in the Beluga and Tyonek formations.
The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas is taking comments through Feb. 24.
If the well were successful, NordAq would construct production facilities at the well site this summer and fall to tie the field into an existing ConocoPhillips transmission pipeline.
The Alaska-based independent also wants to test Shadura No. 1 to determine if the prospect can produce commercially. The company is currently permitting a 4.2-mile gravel road and a 100-foot by 200-foot pad with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
NordAq completed the 14,000-foot wildcat in April 2011. Although the company did not release results, it announced a “significant natural gas discovery” and later, in documents on its website, suggested the prospect could produce up to 50 million cubic feet per day over 30 years. However that website is currently listed as being “under construction.”
—Eric Lidji
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